Dreams of his mother: Barack Obama's Sydney connection

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05 Nov, 2011 03:00 AM

JUDITH GUERTIN recalls it as an otherwise unremarkable conversation between two women taking a summer class at the University of Hawaii in the 1960s.

She and Stanley Ann Dunham were studying textile design and weaving, a subject in which Ms Dunham, an anthropologist, was majoring.

As they swapped life stories Ms Dunham remarked she had tried to visit Australia with a view to seeking an academic posting. But, she told her new friend, there were difficulties because her child was black.

Forty years later, Ms Guertin felt the deep recesses of her memory unlock as she watched Barack Obama's climb to become the first African-American president of the United States . . .



(Family ties ... Barack Obama with his grandfather, Stanley Dunham, his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, and his sister, Maya.)


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[opihimoimoi]

1. Thanks for picture.... :o) Peace is so cheap...WTH are we doing w war?

[tblue37]

2. His sis looks a lot like him in that photo! nt